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The codex contains almost complete text of the four Gospels with some lacunae. The texts of John 10:6-12:18 and 14:23-end were inserted by later hand (on paper, about the 16th century).[2] The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page, in minuscule letters.[1]

It includes the text of the Pericope Adulterae (John 7:53-8:11) (the first important Greek-only manuscript to have the pericope), Matthew 16:2b–3, Luke 22:43–44, 23:34, and of course Mark 16:9-20. All these texts were questioned by early Alexandrian manuscripts. In this manuscript was omitted interpolation of the Alexandrian text-type in Matthew 27:49.[3]

Words in this codex are written continuously without separation. Hermann von Soden observed that the manuscript preserved the division in pages and lines of its uncial parent.[4] The Ammonian sections and the Eusebian Canons were given in the left-hand margin.

Synaxarion and Menologion were added in the 13th century. John 10:6-12:18; 14:24-21:25 was added by later hand in the 16th century.[2]

The Greek text of the codex, is a representative of the late Alexandrian text-type, with some the Byzantine readings. It is one of the most important of all minuscule manuscripts. It contains many remarkable readings of an early type.[5] According to the Claremont Profile Method it represents the Alexandrian text-type as a core member.[6]

It is probably the best survived minuscule witness to the Gospels. Aland placed it in Category II.[7]